Bible verse

1 Samuel 17:57

So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.

1 Samuel 17:57 · BSB

1 Samuel 17:57 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 17.

53 When the Israelites returned from their pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.

54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.

55 As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”

56 “Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.

57 So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.

58 “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

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1 Samuel 17:57 in other translations

KJV

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

ASV

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

ERV

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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